| Title: | Indoor air quality in shopping and storage areas |
| Author(s): | Robert L; Guichard R; Klingler J; Cochet V; Mandin C; |
| Address: | "INRS-Institut National de Recherche et de Securite, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. CSTB-Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, Marne-La-Vallee, France" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1600-0668 (Electronic) 0905-6947 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "In retail stores, workers are constantly exposed to new manufactured goods. The issue of the exposure of retail workers to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) should clearly be considered. Therefore, this study provides data regarding VOC concentrations in ten French retail stores. The stores were chosen to represent various products: sports goods, shoes and leather, furniture, car equipment, bazaars, online-sales storage, clothes, books, DIY (do-it-yourself), and household appliances. VOCs and aldehydes were actively sampled on the same day in five to seven locations per building and outdoors. Toluene and formaldehyde were omnipresent with indoor concentrations reaching 252 and 53 microg/m(3) , respectively. The car equipment store, followed by clothing, shoes, and leather, and DIY stores showed the worst indoor air quality. High concentrations were measured, for example, the maximum alpha-pinene concentration in the furniture and DIY stores was 364 and 141 microg/m(3) , respectively, and the heptane concentration in the car equipment store reached 1,316 microg/m(3) . Two VOCs classified as toxic to reproduction were measured: hexane in the car equipment store and the bazaar, and dimethylformamide in the sports goods store. This study shows some disparities in the indoor concentrations among different locations in the same store, particularly between sales and storage areas" |
| Keywords: | "*Air Pollutants/analysis *Air Pollution, Indoor/analysis Aldehydes Commerce Environmental Monitoring Formaldehyde/analysis Humans *Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis aldehyde occupational health reprotoxic retail store spatial variability volatile organi;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineRobert, Laurence Guichard, Romain Klingler, Jennifer Cochet, Valerie Mandin, Corinne eng INRS/ England 2020/12/29 Indoor Air. 2021 Jul; 31(4):1238-1251. doi: 10.1111/ina.12783. Epub 2020 Dec 24" |
